In my past life, as a wage slave, the employer embraced the modern day trend to abandon selection of employees on any notion of academic achievement, preferring instead to start off the process with answers written by god knows who to questions around "competencies". So, if you had phoned MaccyD's to book a birthday party table you were on your way to middle management. Which brings me to the reason for this ramble. A good proportion of successful candidates could only manage spelling and grammar to a standard well short of that possessed by your average boiler room trainee. And before the snowflakes pile in, I'm talking about people of various ages, religions, and all backgrounds and ethnicities. All sorts. Some of the letters they sent out were embarrassing and it's one of life's mysteries that the recipients didn't all think they were scams and bin them.